WPGlotty versus Weglot
Looking for a Weglot alternative?
With Weglot your translated site lives on their servers and disappears the day you stop paying. WPGlotty is a WordPress translation plugin that writes every translation into your own database, where it stays whatever happens to your licence.
Where they differ
The differences that decide it.
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You are renting your own website
Weglot keeps your translations on its servers and serves them to your visitors from there. Cancel and they stop appearing: the site falls back to one language and the translated pages are removed from Google over the following weeks. That is not our reading of the small print: it is what Weglot's own help centre said when we read it on 3 September 2026.
Every year you pay Weglot buys you nothing you keep. WPGlotty writes each translation into your own database and your own language files, so stop paying, delete the plugin, change host, let the licence lapse, and every translated page is still there and still being served.
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The word limit never resets
A Weglot plan buys a fixed total of translated words, not an allowance that comes back each month. Ten thousand on Starter, fifty thousand on Business. Hit it and translation stops until you upgrade or start deleting translations you have already paid for. Every post you publish moves you closer to the next plan, for the rest of the site's life.
WPGlotty has no ceiling anywhere. You set a monthly spending limit at your own provider and the plugin stops before it passes it, which is a limit you chose rather than one that was sold to you.
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They charge you for wanting more markets
Weglot counts your languages: one on Starter, three on Business, five on Pro, ten on Advanced. Expanding into a fourth country means a bigger invoice before you have earned a euro there.
Every WPGlotty licence carries all 108 languages. Adding a market costs the translating and nothing else, so the site can be in twelve languages on the smallest plan we sell.
Side by side
WPGlotty and Weglot, line by line.
| What | WPGlotty | Weglot |
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| Who does the translating | Claude, DeepL or OpenAI, on your own account | Weglot, on their own engines |
| What a translated word costs | Whatever your provider charges you. We add nothing on top | Included, up to the plan total |
| Words | No limit from us. You set your own monthly ceiling | 10,000 · 50,000 · 200,000 by plan, as a fixed total that does not renew |
| Languages | 108, on every plan | 1 · 3 · 5 · 10 by plan |
| Sites | 1 · 5 · unlimited by plan | 1 · 1 · 3 by plan |
| Price | €36 to €180 a year | $170 · $320 · $870 a year |
| Where translations are stored | In your own database and your own language files | On Weglot servers, served to your visitors from there |
| If you stop paying | They keep being served, in every language, for as long as the site exists | They stop appearing and the translated pages leave the search index |
| Edit a translation on the page | Click any sentence on your own site and rewrite it | Yes, in their visual editor |
| SEO output | hreflang, translated slugs and sitemaps, included | Included |
| Works without the service | Yes. The plugin only calls home to check the licence, twice a day | No. The translated site depends on their service being up |
Figures for Weglot from weglot.com/pricing, checked on 3 September 2026. If something here has gone out of date, tell us and it gets corrected.
What changes
What you get the day you move.
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The translations become yours
Written into your own database and your own language files, served by your own site. Nothing to lose at renewal, nothing that stops working because a subscription lapsed.
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SEO that cannot be switched off
Your translated pages are real pages on your own domain. They stay in the index because they exist, rather than for as long as somebody keeps paying for them.
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All 108 languages, on every licence
A fourth market costs the translating and nothing else. No plan counts your languages.
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A site that does not depend on anyone else being up
The plugin only calls home twice a day to check the licence, and it carries on translating if that call fails. Your visitors never wait on a third party.
Before you move
What people ask.
- What actually happens to my site if I cancel Weglot?
- Their own help centre puts it plainly: the translations stop being active on your project, they no longer appear, and the translated pages are progressively removed from search engines. Your original language keeps working. The translated version of the site does not.
- Can I export my translations out of Weglot first?
- They export in their own format rather than as WordPress content, so there is nothing to import. It is not worth the trouble: retranslating with WPGlotty is one run and a few euros at your provider, and this time the result is written into your own database.
- Is WPGlotty as fast to set up?
- Install the plugin, paste a licence key and a provider key, pick your languages, press translate. That is five minutes, and one of those steps is the one that makes the translations yours rather than somebody else's to switch off.
See the difference on your own site.
Install it on a staging copy, translate one language, and read the result. Five minutes and a euro of provider credit is the whole cost of finding out, and the translations you make are written into your own database from the first sentence.